George V. Reilly's Technical Blog
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Review: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
As part of my personal conversion to Git, I read Swicegood's Git book. It's a decent introduction to Git and you learn how to do all the basic tasks as well as some more advanced topics. The examples are clear and well-paced.
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Third-Party Cookies
Over the last few weeks, I built a PHP application that overlays Approve 71 banners on profile pictures. The actual application is hosted in an iframe and lives on a server in a different domain, eq.dm, than the main server at approvereferendum71.org.
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Gitting Along
In the last few weeks, I've switched over to Git for most of my version-control needs, at home and at work, after putting it on the long finger for months.
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Launching 32-bit applications from batchfiles on Win64
I've been running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 RC since June. It's been quite painless on the whole.
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Recovering photos from a corrupted card
I had about 60 apparently corrupted photos on a CompactFlash card the other evening. It might have been due to Lightroom going berserk, but it was more likely from my pulling the card reader out of the computer without ejecting it first.
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XKCD's Tech Support Cheat Sheet
To my tech supportees:
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Moving Photos in Lightroom
When using Lightroom before, I was never able to figure out how to move photos from one folder to another. You'd think that you could just click on a photo and drag it. I just spent twenty minutes figuring out what I've been doing wrong. After you've selected multiple photos, click on the photo thumbnail and not the surrounding gray frame, and then you can drag the photos to the target folder.
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64-bit Windows 7
I mentioned three weeks ago that I had just repaved my work dev box and installed the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 RC. Nine or ten years after I first ported parts of IIS to Win64, I am finally running my main desktop on 64-bit Windows. With one exception, it's been painless. Programs have just worked, devices have just worked. There are relatively few native x64 applications, but for the most part it doesn't matter. The cases where it does matter—e.g., shell extensions such as TortoiseSVN—are available as 64-bit binaries.
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When Video Cards Go Bad
I complained a week ago about my display driver going berserk. I blamed Windows Update, since it happened within hours of a pile of updates being installed. I upgraded to the latest beta NVidia drivers on Monday and it helped for a while, but by Wednesday, it was almost as bad again as it had been last Friday. It was infuriating and I was both entertaining and alarming my neighbors with my cursing.
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Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered
This morning, the video adapters on my Vista dev box were resetting 2–3 times per minute.